James A. Michener's Space

Space is a television mini-series created by CBS in 1985 that starred James Garner as Sen. Norman Grant. It is based on a novel of the same name by James A. Michener published in 1982. The program is also called "James A. Michener's Space". Like the novel, the mini-series is a fictionalized history of the United States space program.

Characters

Norman Grant (James Garner) is a former war hero turned senator who tirelessly promotes the American space program despite almost insurmountable opposition. Other principal players include John Pope (Harry Hamlin), who, after failing to win his way to Annapolis, matriculates from a Navy recruit to a naval officer, Naval Aviator, test pilot and pioneering astronaut in the company of fellow space-traveler Randy Claggett (Beau Bridges); Penny Hardesty Pope (Blair Brown), an ambitious and beautiful counsel to Senator Grant since his election and wife of John Pope; Leopold Strabismus (David Dukes), a hedonistic wheeler-dealer who hopes to capitalize on the 1947 UFO scare; German rocket scientist Dieter Kolff (Michael York), whose ideals (or lack thereof) are put to the test when he shifts his allegiance from the Nazis to the Americans; and Stanley Mott (Bruce Dern), an aeronautical engineer whose secret assignment is to make certain that men like Kolff aren't snatched up by the Soviets after the fall of Germany.

Cast

James Garner as Senator Norman Grant
Beau Bridges as Astronaut Randy Claggett
Blair Brown as Penny Hardesty Pope
Bruce Dern as Dr. Stanley Mott
Harry Hamlin as Astronaut John Pope
Michael York as Rocket Scientist Dieter Kolff
Barbara Sukowa as Liesel Kolff

This is complete in 9 hours and DOES NOT have subtitles like other collections.









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